Inpatient Group Psychotherapy - Hardcover

Yalom, Irvin D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465032982 ISBN 13: 9780465032983

Publisher: Basic Books, 1983

This essential book for front-line clinicians offers new ways of conceptualizing the techniques of group therapy for use on acute wards. Yalom makes a strong case for the efficacy of group therapy on all acute wards. He discusses how to structure the session and the kind of support that should be offered. The emphasis is on the here-and-now. He then presents two models of groups: one for the higher functioning and one for the more regressed psychotic patients.

About the Author:

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the 1974 Edward Strecker Award and the 1979 Foundation's Fund Prize in Psychiatry. He is the author of When Nietzche Wept (winner of the 1993 Commonwealth Club gold medal for fiction), Love's Executioner, Every Day Gets a Little Closer (with Ginny Elkin), and the classic textbooks Inpatient Group Psychotherapy and Existential Psychotherapy.

Review:

"This is far and away the best book about group psychotherapy.... Yalom writes fluently, knowledgeably, and with clarity and uncommon good sense."

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0465032982
• ISBN 13: 9780465032983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350